I want to shout for all the people in this world: “Please Please HELP US!”

The cause substance have been found. This is an aggregate of
radionuclides which starts with Uranium [in] a nuclear reactor at more
than 5000°C.

This mixed metal contains four different substances, α・β・γ and also have the possibility to radiate neutron ray.

No creature on earth never knew this substance.

We are forced to have those strong substances inside our body without knowing where it exactly stays.

To say that “Cesium has got the same system as potassium and it will be discharged from the body” is just a lie! [...]

We are all manipulated by the words “radiation” and “radiation doze”
without knowing the real identity of radiation source. We are not told
the real facts of being irradiated [...]

They only compare radiation doze and natural potassium contained in
bananas and manipulated people as if it was a scientific study. I really
want the scholars patronized by the government to be punished by the
rancorous of all children on this earth. [...]

The informations say that hot particles were diffused and flied in
all directions in Japan. The particles from hell is flying in the air
and people don’t protect themselves anymore three years after the
nuclear accident and children are aspirating those horrible particles
everyday!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP US! Please let all people in the world to
know the life we are living since the accident, everyday and toda

Alcides Raméon Ramírez, a member of one of 200 peasant families fighting
to defend their land in Curuguaty, Paraguay. Eighty percent of the
country's land is in the hands of just two percent of landowners.
(Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Intermon)

It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the
world's food. But how many of us realise that they are doing this with
less than a quarter of the world's farmland, and that even this meagre
share is shrinking fast? If small farmers continue to lose the very
basis of their existence, the world will lose its capacity to feed
itself.

GRAIN took an in depth look at the data to see what is going on and
the message is crystal clear. We need to urgently put land back in the
hands of small farmers and make the struggle for agrarian reform central
to the fight for better food systems.

Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small
farmers control the largest share of the world's agricultural land.
Inaugurating 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming, José
Graziano da Silva, Director General of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), sang the praises of family farmers but
didn't once mention the need for land reform. Instead he stated that
family farms already manage most of the world's farmland1 – a whopping 70%, according to his team.2 Another report published by various UN agencies in 2008 concluded that small farms occupy 60% of all arable land worldwide.3 Other studies have come to similar conclusions.4

But if most of the world's farmland is in small farmers' hands, then
why are so many of their organisations clamouring for land
redistribution and agrarian reform? Because rural peoples' access to
land is under attack everywhere. From Honduras to Kenya and from
Palestine to the Philippines, people are being dislodged from their
farms and villages. Those who resist are being jailed or killed.
Widespread agrarian strikes in Colombia, protests by community leaders
in Madagascar, nationwide marches by landless folk in India, occupations
in Andalusia – the list of actions and struggles goes on and on. The
bottom line is that land is becoming more and more concentrated in the
hands of the rich and powerful, not that small farmers are doing well.

Rural people don't simply make a living off the land, after all. Their
land and territories are the backbone of their identities, their
cultural landscape and their source of well-being. Yet land is being
taken away from them and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands at an
alarming pace.

Then there is the other part of the picture: that concerning food.
While it is now increasingly common to hear that small farmers produce
the majority of the world's food, even if that is outside of market
systems, we are also constantly being fed the message that the "more
efficient" industrial food system is needed to feed the world. At the
same time, we are told that 80% of the world's hungry people live in
rural areas, many of them farmers or landless farmworkers.

How do we make sense of all this? What is true and what is not? What
action do we take to deal with these imbalances? To help answer some of
these questions, GRAIN decided to take a closer look at the facts.5 We tried to find out how much land is really in the hands of small farmers, and how much food they produce on that land.6

The figures and what they tell us

When we looked at the data, we came across quite a number of
difficulties. Countries define "small farmer" differently. There are no
centralised statistics on who has what land. There are no databases
recording how much food comes from where. And different sources give
widely varying figures for the amount of agricultural land available in
each country.

In compiling the figures, we used official statistics from national
agricultural census bureaus in each country wherever possible,
complemented by FAOSTAT (FAO's statistical database) and other FAO
sources where necessary. For statistical guidance on what a "small farm"
is, we generally used the definition provided by each national
authority, since the conditions of small farms in different countries
and regions can vary widely. Where national definitions were not
available, we used the World Bank's criteria.

In light of this, there are important limitations to the data – and our
compilation and assessment of them. (See Annex 1 for a fuller
discussion of the data.) The dataset that we produced is fully
referenced and publicly available online and forms an integral part of
this report.7

Despite the inherent shortcomings of the data, we feel confident in drawing six major conclusions:

The vast majority of farms in the world today are small and getting smaller

Small farms are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world's farmland

We are fast losing farms and farmers in many places, while big farms are getting bigger

Small farms continue to be the major food producers in the world

Small farms are overall more productive than big farms

Most small farmers are women

Many of these conclusions might seem obvious, but two things shocked us.

One was to see the extent of land concentration today, a problem that
agrarian reform programmes of the 20th century were supposed to have
solved. What we see happening in many countries right now is a kind of
reverse agrarian reform, whether it's through corporate land grabbing in
Africa, the recent agribusiness-driven coup d'état in Paraguay, the
massive expansion of soybean plantations in Latin America, the opening
up of Burma to foreign investors, or the extension of the European Union
and its agricultural model eastward. In all of these processes, control
over land is being usurped from small producers and their families,
with elites and corporate powers pushing people onto smaller and smaller
land holdings, or off the land entirely into camps or cities.

The other shock was to learn that, today, small farms have less than a
quarter of the world's agricultural land – or less than a fifth if one
excludes China and India from the calculation. Such farms are getting
smaller all the time, and if this trend persists they might not be able
to continue to feed the world.

Let's go through these findings point by point.

1. The vast majority of farms in the world today are small and getting smaller
By our calculations, over 90% of all farms worldwide are "small", holding on average 2.2 hectares (Table 1).
Even if we exclude China and India – where about half of the world's
small farms are located – from the calculations, small farms still
account for over 85% of all farms on the planet today. In over
two-thirds of all countries, small farms – as defined in each country –
represent more than 80% of all farms. In only nine countries, all of
them in Western Europe, are small farms a minority.8

After suffering devastating winter floods, Gaza now
prepares for a long, dry summer of acute water shortages, declining
water quality and a collapsing sewage system, as its coastal aquifer
faces permanent damage from over-use and seawater contamination.

The consequences of a dry winter
in the Middle East are being studied particularly closely in Gaza,
where the area's 1.9 million residents already face a number of largely
man-made threats to water security.

The following round-up of recent publications by think tanks,
analysts and human rights organizations highlights the close link
between water security and electricity supplies, and the near exhaustion
of Gaza's coastal aquifer.

A power crisis in the territoriy has reduced the availability of running water
in most households, according to a factsheet produced by the UN Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with more than 30%
of homes in Gaza receiving running water for just 6-8 hours every four
days.

Immediate action needed to avert 'irreversible damage'

In March, a petition signed by nearly 13,000 people and organised by the Emergency Water and Sanitation-Hygiene Group (EWASH),
a coalition which includes national and international NGOs and UN
agencies, was handed to the European Parliament to urge action to end
the water crisis in Gaza.

"The scale and severity of the water crisis facing the Gaza Strip
is enormous, and unless immediate action is taken, the damage to Gaza's
natural water resources will be irreversible", says a factsheet produced by the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA).

At least 90% of the water supply in Gaza is contaminated with a
combination of nitrate (NO3) or chloride (Cl), according to the PWA. It
says water quantity is also an issue, with average consumption of 90
litres per person per day, below WHO's recommended guidelines for minimum health requirements of 100 to 250 litres per person per day, say EWASH.

In the coming years, the population of Gaza is expected to continue
growing, creating increased water and power needs. The power supply
required to operate current water and wastewater facilities, currently
29 MW (megawatts) is expected to rise to 81.5 MW by 2020, according to
PWA, as the population grows and new water projects are built.

'Significant water deficits' loom

According to an OCHA factsheet on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), "The
insufficient supply of electricity and fuel to operate water pumps and
wells has caused a further reduction in the availability of running
water in most households. This has increased people's reliance on
private, uncontrolled water suppliers and lowered hygiene standards."

Israel is the main source of electricity in the OPTs, with 4,702 gigawatt hours purchased from Israel in 2012, constituting 89% of its total energy purchases.

The Gaza Strip, specifically, is supplied with electricity from three
sources: purchases from Israel (120 megawatts) and from Egypt (28 MW)
and production by the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) (currently 60 MW).
According to OCHA, this supply meets less than half of the estimated
demand.

In a recent report on water in the OPTs, Friends of the Earth says: "Water
injustice and inequitable allocation of water to Palestinian people has
seriously deteriorated the overall economic and social well-being of
the people ...

"The majority of water resources are concentrated in the hands of
Israel, while the Palestinian population endures significant water
deficits."

B'Tselem: 'an unequal division'

In a press release
issued in February, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem said
the Israeli government was largely responsible for this discrimination
due its water policy: "Minimal amounts of water are supplied to Palestinians and water from shared resources is unequally divided."

The Israel Water Authority on the other hand says
Israel goes well beyond existing water obligations in providing
additional water supplies to OPT. It says uncontrolled drilling in OPT
is a major threat to supply:

"Over 300 unauthorized wells were drilled by the Palestinians in
the West Bank. These unauthorized wells may ruin the shared aquifer as
they almost completely ruined the one in Gaza and caused an ecological
disaster."

Gaza's coastal aquifer 'unusable' by 2016

Almost all the water in Gaza comes from the coastal aquifer, which is
shared with Israel. "[D]ue to the absence of any policy coordination
between Israel and the Gaza Strip with regard to the Coastal Aquifer,
both authorities are currently over-extracting", says EWASH.

A UN report in August 2012 entitled Gaza in 2020 forecast that at current rates of deterioration the coastal aquifer will become unusable by 2016 and beyond repair by 2020.

In 2009 the UN Environment Programme recommended ending abstraction
from the aquifer completely, but with low rainfall and no year-round
rivers, Gaza has few other options.

PWA has long-term plans for a central desalination plant and
short-term plans for several low-volume desalination projects,
wastewater treatment plants and developing treated wastewater reuse for
irrigation. But given the challenges posed by the blockade and
electricity shortages, the viability of such plans is in question.

Without power, adequate water is a pipe-dream

While large-scale emergency and strategic water desalination and
wastewater treatment projects are necessary to provide for the
population in the future, without adequate power sources, these projects
will only add to the challenges.

As part of its 2014 response plan
for OPT, the UN has appealed for US$25 million to help improve access
to basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for 1.9 million
of the people in need.

So far, the chronically underfunded Water and Sanitation-Hygiene (WASH) sector is just 5.6% funded, well below the average of 18% for other sectors.

This article was originally published by Irin News - a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Full breakdown of the Collbrand Colorado "landslide" from our live broadcast on Friday Night (May 30 2014). All links below.

It
appears a large deposit of high pressure liquid sand, underground at
the Collbran Colorado fracking location, found a weak point to the
surface.

After doing some research on the "Collbran Gas System"
, which is part of the Piceance shale deposit, I found that in addition
to hydraulic fracturing (fracking), there is also a LARGE amount of CO2
being pumped into the ground (like carbonation in a can of soda).... a
process called "Carbon Sequestration", where CO2 is pumped into old oil
wells filled with liquid frack sands.

Carbon Sequestration is a
Geoengineering method to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
(under the belief that there is global warming due to excessive CO2 in
the atmosphere).

The geoengineers have partnered up with the US
Government, and oil companies -- to use old oil wells to "store" Carbon
Dioxide gas. (each well thousands of feet deep, capable of being filled
and compressed with billions of cubic feet of gas across thousands of
old wells).

It is my supposition that a high pressure liquid
sand CO2 "eruption" occurred at the fracking operation (the weakest
point in the crust due to drilling)...

The weak point allowed the
liquid frack sands, along with subterranean high pressure sands, along
with highly compressed CO2 to all "erupt" and flow down the mountain
more like a LAHAR than a "landslide".

Complete lack of water ,
and the presence of a sandy silicate mixture, also the confirmed CO2
storage... means we're getting a bogus line from the powers that be on
the reasons behind this fracture.

At least 33 communities in Texas could soon be completely out of water,
some within three short months. Others say they could go dry in just 45
days.

Pebble Beach, a town northwest of San Antonio, has had
their request approved for a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to dig new, deeper wells.

Bandera County, an area
located on the Edwards Plateau, said they intend to match $90,000 in
order to acquire property so they can build a 30,000-gal. ground storage
tank for the community.

Resident Joe Mooneyham told KHOU-TV that he hasn't been able to water his lawn since last September.

"Everything
was just emerald green," said Mooneyham. He told the local news that he
misses the green landscape, deer and the normal water levels that once
existed in Lake Medina. The lake behind the Pebble Beach resident's home
has receded more than one and a quarter mile away.

"Every day I go on and check the level," Mooneyham said.

Pebble
Beach is named as such because of a field of small stones covering a
nearly dried up lakebed. Neighbors just a few miles down the road are
purchasing tens of thousands of dollars worth of water and having it
shipped in just to survive. Unfortunately, communities are routinely
being developed in areas lacking the water needed to support them.
Existing communities nearby then have their water resources dried up attempting to support the new developments.

The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors towns like Pebble Beach
for water shortages but has failed to enforce necessary regulation on
developers building in areas with unsustainable water resources.

"The
well-service people have been lowering pumps. Some have had to have new
wells drilled. It's just a fact of nature," said Bandera County Judge
Richard Evans.

Pebble Beach only has one well, said Judge Evans.
"They need another well. They need storage capacity. So, that's what
we're trying to help them effect."

St. Mary's University water
law professor Amy Hardberger weighed in, saying, "We have sort of taken
water for granted for a long time. And I think that time is over. I
think its valuation has gone up. Some communities are in more trouble
than others."Desperate for rain

Texas was hit hard with a drought
three years ago, leaving many regions still unable to recover. More
than two-thirds of the state suffers from moderate to severe drought
conditions.

Lake Travis provides water for more than 1 million
people throughout the Austin area. Officials with the Lower Colorado
River Authority (LCRA) say prolonged drought is the cause of extremely low water levels, which are still about 50 ft. below average.

Repeated,
heavy rainstorms are required to "significantly raise storage levels,"
said the LCRA's website. The LCRA is primarily reliant on water flow
from the Colorado River to supply demand for cities, power plants,
farming and environmental flow requirements.

While many Texas
regions have been affected by droughts, counties in the North and
Northwest have suffered the most, with areas listed as a #4 for
Exceptional Drought on the intensity scale.

As of May 21, statistics provided
by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) indicate that
there are 12 public water systems that could run out of water in 45
days, and 21 that could run out in 90.

Residents of Wichita Falls
came up with a new way to deal with water shortages last month when
they proposed to recycle toilet bowl water, reported
National Public Radio. TCEQ officials are required to conduct testing
of the recycled wastewater before approving the $13 million proposal.

Friday, May 30, 2014

As rain poured on Utah land this past weekend pushing oil about five
miles upstream into a wash adjacent to the Green River, it appeared that
a Bureau of Land Management assessment of a leak was completely wrong.

A BLM report released a week ago stated that a breached oil
well had been contained after the May 21 leak. Now, the federal agency
says “intense thundershower activity overcame prevention measures” and,
as a result, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues cleanup
efforts that could take another week, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“This pollution of the Green River could and should have been
prevented,” said Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers
Council. “The fact that the BLM claimed it was contained before it went
on to contaminate the Green River with carcinogens is disturbing.”

Initial BLM estimates indicated that the damaged well gushed 80 to
100 barrels of oil per hour for more than 30 hours. Groups like the Utah Rivers Council, the Sierra Club, Living Rivers
and the Colorado Riverkeeper believe that amount equals 100,000 gallons
of crude oil into a wash adjacent to the river. It is unknown how much
of the oil entered the river, which is the largest tributary to the
Colorado River, the main source of drinking water for about 35 million
people. It is also the habitat of four endangered fish species.

Officials told Utah’s KSL that the oil’s contact with the river was “minimal.”

The spill is the third to occur in the state in just three months.
Utah is now ranked 11th in the country in terms of crude oil production.
The state isn’t trying to slow its oil boom down, either. The annual
Utah Governor’s Energy Development Summit begins June 3 and is typically
an effective recruiting tool for new development. Additionally,
thousands of proposed new wells are awaiting approval.

“It’s unlikely that [Gov. Gary R. Herbert] and his friends from the
fossil fuels industries will be talking about another oil spill in
Utah,” Tim Wagner of the Sierra Club said. “Rather, we can be sure that
they will be discussing additional ways that they can tap into more of
Utah’s black gold, including plotting to take away our public lands.”

Environmentalists are worried about what the miscalculation means for the future.

“With the energy policies of our state leaders, lower basin residents can see the future, whichmeans more pollution in their taps,”said John Weisheit, conservation director of Living Rivers and Colorado Riverkeeper.

In the first such study of toxic contaminants within the Columbia River, researchers have found
troubling results. Not only is the water polluted, but so is the
wildlife—the fish which both birds and people are eating. The
contaminants being blamed? Those that go down the drains in homes all
across the country.

As OPB reports,
the study was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey. It lasted six
years and was the first time household toxins were effectively tested
for in the Columbia river.

“In a lot of cases,
there’s not even thresholds set for safe and unsafe because we’ve never
looked for them before,” said USGS hydrologist Steven Sobieszczyk.

The toxins were found in
the water, fish, and osprey eggs. The fish species they looked at, the
largescale sucker, had sperm abnormalities which make it more difficult
for them to reproduce. These fish are caught for consumption, which
means the toxins they are absorbing are coming back to the people who
are likely to blame for polluting the water in the first place.

“A
lot of these things come through the pathways of the wastewater
treatment plant into the river,” says Elena Nielsen, a research chemist
with the USGS in Portland. “But the ultimate source was usually us,” she
admits.

Their
findings—which resulted from analysis of river sediments, insects in
the water, the largescale sucker, and osprey eggs—show bioaccumulation.
This means there are higher levels of toxins the higher you go up the
food chain. Further, contamination levels were also higher as you move
downstream, as toxic impact accumulated.

“Water
quality often goes overlooked and ignored because it’s not tangible. You
can’t see it,” said Sara Thompson of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission. “We can see fish populations decrease in the Columbia
River system and the Willamette System but we can’t see these toxics. We
have to make water quality standards a priority in Washington, Oregon
and Idaho.”

While local tribes depend more on
salmon and steelhead, the study on suckers indicates a larger
water-quality issue, one that no doubt affects all fish varieties.

The
household toxins we’re talking about here are those many of us use on a
daily basis and don’t think twice to pour down the drain or spray on
the lawn. But despite them disappearing from our view, these pollutants
continue to have effects on the world around us.

Below is my letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission pointing out
that industry has finally come out and admitted what I and others have
been saying for years. [Note from TBYP: It's important that you send
your utility your notice of Non-Consent via registered mail. Subscribe
to our Newsletter for forthcoming news, and see our Solutions page for current links to templates.]

The SmartGridNews article, entitled “Now utilities can tell customers
how much energy each appliance uses (just from the smart meter data),”
is here.

Here is breaking news. SmartGridNews has just come out of the closet
and admitted what I and others have been saying all long: “Smart” meters
are surveillance devices.

APS and utilities nationwide have been denying the surveillance
capability of “smart” meters but here is one of the foremost “smart”
meter cheerleaders in the world finally admitting the truth.

SmartGridNews calls such “smart” grid industry names as Telvent,
Silver Spring Networks and Lockheed Martin its “major sponsors”. So of
course the news story attempts to put a positive spin on the
surveillance, hyping such nonsense as an “over 4% conservation [of
energy] after just a few months”.

Wow, that means I might save four whole dollars and change on a one
hundred dollar electrical bill. Where do I sign up to be spied on?

Enclosed is the SmartGridNews article, Now utilities can tell
customers how much energy each appliance uses (just from the smart meter
data).

Sincerely,

Warren Woodward

PS – In the article, note the creepy picture of a guy dressed in
black and using binoculars. SmartGridNews is shameless to promote
Peeping Toms as cool. Note also Orwellian phrasing such as “behavioral
science“ and turning ratepayers into “willing partners“. It’s not a
“smart” grid; it’s a sick grid.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

The commercials have been airing for awhile now: you can protect your
home with a smart CCTV camera system that includes full streaming,
night vision, two-way talk back, and digital zoom for only $150. You can
even add on the optional cloud recording to access stored footage of
your home for up to a month (all encrypted for your security, of
course).

Now news has surfaced that Google’s “Nest” division, which involves smart thermostats
that program themselves and can be remotely controlled to change your
home’s temperature over the Internet from anywhere, is looking to move
into home security with plans to purchase home CCTV system-maker
Dropcam.

“With a Dropcam Wi-Fi video monitoring camera and optional
cloud recording service you can remotely drop in on your house, baby,
pets, business, or anything else from a smartphone, tablet, or
computer,” the firm says. (source)

Check out the video. Dropcam’s CEO says they built it to answer a
really simple question: “What goes on at home when I’m not there?”

Guess it depends who is asking the question. Google’s plans ultimately involve, according to Mail Online, total home automation.

Apparently this comes just as Apple is planning to unveil its own home automation app that would tie everything together:

An Apple patent published in November last year gave the
first hints of the system, showing a system that automatically turned on
lights when a user comes home.

It is believed the firm is already working with home automation firms to ensure their gadgets work with the app.

That means you and your house will be constantly creating bits of
data that form a blueprint of your daily life: how much electricity and
water you use and when you use it, on top of a camera that video tapes
you using it.

And what of privacy?

And if you can “drop in” on your house, you have to wonder, who else can drop in, too?

Beyond that, we live in a world where the so-called National Security
Agency’s habit of spying on Americans through major telecommunications
companies like Google and Apple has been fully exposed now. It’s not
even a question of if they do it anymore. They are openly doing it. Period.

Why else would they need to build a $3 billion data hub in the Utah desert?

(On a side note, it’s pretty interesting that out of three American
cities that Google chose to first launch it’s Fiber super high speed
internet, one of them is Provo, Utah…a choice that hardly makes sense in
lieu of larger cities until you consider Provo is just 30 minutes away
from the aforementioned NSA spy hub.)
In addition to apps that track your house, Apple is also set to unveil an app that tracks…you:

Called Healthbook, the new app is expected to be unveiled in
June at Apple’s annual developer conference. It offers everything from
food and sleep tracking to blood sugar level analysis – and can even
tell how much water you’ve drunk. (source)

Check out the control panel that comes with your trendy new “health-tracking wristband” iWatch:

We now live in such a fear-based technocratic society, we are literally paying to give up liberty for security.

The human race is about to get sucked up into the Internet of Things
— “a global, immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing
environment built through the continued proliferation of smart sensors,
cameras, software, databases, and massive data centers in a
world-spanning information fabric.”

Are you ready?

This article was written by Melissa Melton and originally published at The Daily Sheeple

The biotechnology industry has found another use for
pesticide-resistant gene technology by putting it in grass seeds, and in
the process, completely avoided federal regulation of this new
genetically engineered (GE) product.

Soon, lawns and farms across America could consist of Scotts
Roundup-Ready Kentucky Bluegrass (whether people want it or not),
designed to withstand “massive amounts of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide,”
according to EcoWatch.

Monsanto and Scotts managed to get their GE grass on the market without approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) due to loopholes in federal law.

Ordinarily, GE crops come under federal regulation as long as they
contain genetic material from “plant pests”—the beings that the gene
manipulation are designed to resist.

But Scotts decided to use DNA from other plants in creating the new
kind of Kentucky bluegrass, along with other techniques that avoided
triggering the USDA to step in and require testing, as well as its
approval, before the grass could be sold to consumers.

EcoWatch’s Charlotte Warren and Ronnie Cummins warn that because of
bluegrass’ light pollen, the grass can easily spread to neighboring
properties. Once it does, the GE version will genetically merge with
existing grasses—including organic ones that farmers rely on to produce
organic meat, for example.

“As these seeds spread and more and more grass takes up that genetic
trait, we’ll find organic farmers who want to grass feed their beef,
can’t do it because their grass is genetically modified, which is
prohibited in organic standards,” Bill Duesing of the Northeast Organic Farming Association wrote for CT News Junkie. “GMOs are pollution with a life of its own.”

Warren and Cummins noted that research has shown that GE grass eaten by
animals has a “devastating impact” on their health, whether they be
“prized horses” or cattle raised for the meat market. The journalists
also predict that the use of GE grass will lead to increased use of the
widely used herbicide Roundup, which contains the ingredient glyphosate,
said to cause numerous diseases, from Parkinson’s to cancer.

Uncle Sam has been nickel-and-diming Americans to pay for a nuclear waste disposal facility that doesn't exist.

But on Friday, after a protracted legal battle between the Department of Energy and power companies, the feds are backing down.

For 30 years, customers who got their energy from nuclear power plants
had an extra fee tacked on to their monthly bills, ostensibly to pay for
the cost of disposing nuclear waste.

"The fee is tiny - one mill, or a tenth of a cent, for every kilowatt hour generated by nuclear power," CNN reported. "That amounts to about 15 to 20 cents on the average monthly electric bill, industry officials estimate."

The catch: the feds weren't actually using the money to deal with nuclear waste.

Instead, the feds shelled out roughly $7 billion on
the abortive attempt to open a waste facility at Yucca Mountain in
Nevada, and after that failed, they sat back and collected the cash.

Now the Nuclear Waste Fund holds about $31 billion, having collected $40 billion since starting in 1982.

The Department of Energy was actually ordered to stop collecting the fees - which add up to $750 million a year - back in November, but the lawsuits weren't finally settled until Friday.

The Nuclear Waste Fund will continue to balloon despite the end of the
fees - interest payments will grow the fund by about $1.3 billion
annually.

In early 1978, a song entitled "Dust in the Wind"
by a rock band known as Kansas shot up the Billboard charts. When
Kerry Livgren penned those now famous lyrics, he probably never imagined
that Dust Bowl conditions would return to his home state just a few
short decades later. Sadly, that is precisely what is happening. When
American explorers first traveled through north Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas, they referred to it as "the Great American Desert" and they
doubted that anyone would ever be able to farm it. But as history has
shown, when that area gets plenty of precipitation the farming is
actually quite good. Unfortunately, the region is now in the midst of a
devastating multi-year drought which never seems to end. Right now, 56 percent of Texas, 64 percent of Oklahoma and 80 percent
of Kansas are experiencing "severe drought", and the long range
forecast for this upcoming summer is not good. In fact, some areas in
the region are already drier than they were during the worst times of
the 1930s. And the relentless high winds that are plaguing that area of
the country are kicking up some hellacious dust storms. For example,
some parts of Kansas experienced a two day dust storm last month. And Lubbock, Texas was hit be a three day dust storm
last month. We are witnessing things that we have not seen since the
depths of the Dust Bowl days, and unless the region starts getting a
serious amount of rain, things are going to get a whole lot worse before
they get any better.

Over the past two months, very high winds and bone dry conditions
have made the lives of ordinary farmers in the state of Kansas
extraordinarily difficult. Just check out the following excerpt from a
recent article posted on Agriculture.com...

The dust has settled, but for how long no one can be
sure. At any moment, the winds may blow, moving the topsoil -- soil that
took Mother Nature generations to craft -- even farther from its
origin.

One farmer reckons that precious topsoil, native to his farm in Kearny County, Kansas, now sits in a field at least 200 miles away, blown there by the relentless winds of March and April 2014.

Affecting counties in western Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and
eastern Colorado, it was reminiscent of what folks in the same region
faced 80 years ago.

"There were several days we couldn’t see 100 yards in front of us," says Tom Hauser, a farmer near Ulysses, Kansas. "We didn’t know where the dust was coming from. It was moving in here from somewhere else, just like it did back in the 1930s."

When heavy winds blow day after day but there is no rain, it creates
ideal conditions for dust storms. According to the same article that I
just mentioned, the average wind speed in the little community of
Syracuse, Kansas has been over 50 miles an hour so far this year...

Since the beginning of 2014, the average maximum daily
wind speed in Syracuse, Kansas, is 50.6 miles per hour, according to the
Kansas State University Weather Data Library. In that same time,
Syracuse has received just 1 inch of total precipitation.That is a recipe for disaster.

“I’ve had to chisel more ground this year than the last 20 years put
together,” says Gary Millershaski, who farms near Lakin in Kearny
County. Chiseling the ground roughs it up, and helps prevent soil from
blowing – at least for a little while.

I couldn't imagine living somewhere with such high winds day after day.

But this is what farmers in the High Plains have to deal with on a constant basis.

And needless to say, when things are this dry those kinds of winds can kick up some immense dust storms. In fact, a dust storm in late April was so large that it covered most of the region...

Monday's dust storm was so large it covered most of Kansas, western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and eastern Colorado,
said weather service meteorologist Jeff Hutton in Dodge City. Tuesday's
dust cloud was more localized, only found in some parts of Kansas.

"That is what happens when you get drought, a lack of vegetation and
you have wind," Hutton said. "I mean, that is just the nature of the
High Plains. And then that dirt that was lofted is eventually carried
into eastern Kansas."

When one of these dust storms strikes, you want to get indoors and
stay there. It isn't even safe to be driving. When you can't even see
five feet in front of you, the odds of getting into a fatal accident
rise exponentially. Just check out what happened earlier this year near the little town of Liberal, Kansas...

At least 12 vehicles were involved in an pileup accident near Liberal, Kansas.

The accident happened around 1:40 p.m., nine miles southwest of
Liberal. It appears that blowing dust limited visibility so severely
that it cause vehicles to not see each other until it was too late and
they collided. One report states that visibility was less than five
feet.

According to Chief Anthony Adams of the Tyrone Fire Department in
Oklahoma, six of the vehicles involved were cars and trucks, the other
six were tractor trailers.

As bad as things are in Kansas right now, the truth is that things
are probably even worse down in Texas. Amarillo has had 10 dust storms
so far this year, and Lubbock has already had 15 days of dust storms in 2014...

The number of dust storms seems to rise with the length
of the drought. Amarillo has had 10 this year; it had none in 2010. The
city is about 10 percent drier now than the 42 months that ended April
30, 1936, and drier than the state’s record drought in the 1950s.

Lubbock already has seen 15 days with dust storms this year, the National Weather Service said.

So what is going to happen if this drought extends for several more years or even longer?
Some experts such as paleoclimatologist Edward Cook have suggested that we could be in the midst of a "megadrought" that could last for decades or even centuries.

Many of those that were convinced that we could never see a return of
the Dust Bowl days are now being forced to reevaluate their beliefs.
According to the National Weather Service, parts of Kansas, Colorado,
Texas and Oklahoma are already drier than they were in the 1930s. The
following is an excerpt from a recent National Geographic article
entitled "Parched: A New Dust Bowl Forms in the Heartland"...

Four years into a mean, hot drought that shows no sign of
relenting, a new Dust Bowl is indeed engulfing the same region that was
the geographic heart of the original. The undulating frontier where
Kansas, Colorado, and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma converge is
as dry as toast. The National Weather Service, measuring rain
over 42 months, reports that parts of all five states have had less rain
than what fell during a similar period in the 1930s.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

In a new documentary by Ed Brown titled, ‘Unacceptable Levels,’
we can learn how the industrial revolution led to more than 80,000
toxic chemicals that are unregulated and untested by independent
scientific bodies, while still being given the rubber stamp of approval
by agencies like the EPA.

Companies are free to put these
untested, carcinogenic, toxic chemicals in any product they wish without
government oversight. Jennifer Sass, senior scientist at the Natural
Resources Defense Council says:

“Almost all of our consumer products are made up of chemicals, and a lot of those chemicals are harmful.”

Jeff Sell, the VP of Public Policy and General Council for the Autism Society of America, points out that, “different chemicals, in different levels are getting into us in every conceivable way.” Andy Igrejas, a senior chemist calls the human body, ‘ground zero’ for this chemical onslaught.

These
chemicals cause reproductive problems, interfere with our immune
systems, induce cancer, interfere with child development, and cause
serious cognitive disorders. Just one of these 80,000
chemicals, bisphenol A, causes severe developmental and DNA changes in fetuses. More than 232 chemicals were recently found in babies –
brand new beings that have been on this planet for days. These
chemicals were found in the umbilical chords, which means they were
getting toxic ‘transfusions’ from their mothers, and the environmental
chemicals they were exposed to.

Just one of many other chemicals detected in newborns was a toxic flame retardant chemical called
tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), which permeates computer circuit boards,
synthetic fragrances (Galaxolide and Tonalide) used in common cosmetics
and detergents, and perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA, or C4), a member of
the notorious Teflon chemical family used to make non-stick and grease-,
stain- and, water-resistant coatings for cookware, textiles, food
packaging and other consumer products.

Many learning disabilities,
cancers, cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s, and auto-immune disorders
are linked to these 80,000 chemicals, yet they are allowed by our
governments. Some say we are being systematically poisoned so that
corporations can continue to make billions from products that we don’t
need, and that are choking the planet. Either way, the ‘system’ is so
broken. It should be completely trashed so that we could start over,
beginning with a ban on every single one of these toxic elements.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Residents in the city of Portland, Oregon are being told not to drink
their tap water without boiling it first as officials are investigating
how the city’s water supply became contaminated with E. coli.

The Boil Water notice was issued today after health officials
detected E. coli bacteria in water samples at three locations over a
three-day period.

“Until further notice, all Portland Water Bureau
customers and those in the affected areas should boil all tap water used
for drinking, food preparation, tooth brushing and ice for at least one
minute. Ice or any beverages prepared with un-boiled tap water on or
after May 20 should be discarded,” the water bureau said on its website.

In three separate incidents from May 20 to May 23, repeat water samples confirmed the presence of total coliform and E. coli
in routine drinking water samples. The water samples that tested
positive for bacteria were collected at the outlets of Mt. Tabor
Reservoirs 1 and 5, and at the SE 2nd Avenue and Salmon Street water
sampling station.

Both reservoirs have been taken offline, causing 670,000 people to
placed under a boil water order. It is the largest boil water notice in
the city’s history.

“We’re painfully aware that we’re going into a holiday
weekend and that this is an inconvenience for people,” City Commissioner
Nick Fish said. “We regret that, but we’re also guided by good science
and regulations.”

All Portland Water Bureau customers are affected. Also affected are customers of the following water providers:

Burlington Water District

City of Gresham (North of I-84)

Lake Grove Water District

Lorna Portland Water

Palatine Hill Water District

Rockwood Water District

Tigard Water Service Area (including Durham, King City and Bull Mountain)

A huge fire burning in Alaska's Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has
exploded in size and now covers 243 square miles - an area bigger than
the city of Chicago. The Funny River fire in the heavily forested
reserve south of Anchorage is just 30% contained and authorities have
ordered the evacuation of around 1,000 structures, the AP
reports. The fire isn't unusually big by Alaska standards, a state
spokeswoman says, but it is occurring much earlier in the year than
usual; unusually dry conditions, accompanied by high winds, are helping
the blaze to spread.

Some 900 people have been evacuated from an area near the city of
Soldotna, and it's not clear whether they will have homes to return to
when the fire is contained. "Living there, you have in the back of your
mind it's one way in and one way out - and it's surrounded by forest," a
71-year-old resident who fled his home in a pickup truck carrying
clothes, photos, and a trailer with two ATVs tells the Anchorage Daily News. "It's still not a good feeling when you're deciding what you can take, what you can't take, and what you may leave."

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Ecuador is facing an unprecedented confrontation
between a 'progressive' left-leaning government and a national coalition
of indigenous peoples determined to stop vast oil and mining projects
taking place on their community land and villages.

Ecuador's umbrella organization representing the country's Tribal Nations, CONAIE,
has declared a National Mobilization to oppose a wave of oil and mining
projects that threaten tribal territories across the country.

The declaration comes in the wake of increasing hostility by
Ecuador's government against the indigenous people resisting large scale
resource extraction on their ancenstral lands. The government has
announced a 'national security alert'.

At present more than 200 Tribal National leaders are under
investigation for terrorism - relating to the growing popular resistance
to polluted water and environmental destruction arising from extractive industries.

The government of the 'progressive' and left-leaning President, Rafael Correa,
is pushing hard for the development of oil and mineral resources as a
means of bringing wealth to the country and raising much needed revenues
for social spending.

However its insistence on pursuing massive resource projects on lands
owned by indigenous communities, and in some of the most biodiverse
areas on Earth, is causing growing tension across the country.

Oil Exploration and Extraction

Yasuni National Park
is an area of incredible biodiversity which the Government has declared
open to oil extraction. It is also home to indigenous communities
including two groups living in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri and
Taromenane.

However Yasuni is estimated to hold over 800 million barrels of oil
worth some $18 billion, and its exploitation would yield Ecuador's
government revenues of $7 billion.

The decision to exploit Yasuni's oil has caused widespread outrage in
the small Andean nation and 756,000 people signed an official petition
demanding a referendum on whether the project should go ahead.

To force a referendum 583,323 voters would have to sign, 5% of the
electorate. However after a brief inspection of only four days, the
government declared that only 359,762 of the 756,000 signatures were
valid, claiming that the remainder were fakes and duplicates - and refused to hold the demanded referendum.

There are loud calls declaring the process "fraudulent" and a failure of the Democratic process, and insistent demands that the electoral council publish the annulled signatures.

"This is without precedent. This is fraud, a clear fraud. There is no precedent on a global scale", said Patricio Chavez, one of the petition organizers. "We
have a copy of everything we turned over and before turning it over we
went through a verification process to prevent any problems."

Sapara territory at risk

Another Amazonian hotspot is the Sapara territory - 380,000 hectares
of forest under the official tenure of the Sapara Nation, now threatened
with Chinese oil exploration.

Leaders have held rallies and raised awareness of their danger.
Several Sapara leaders are now facing investigation by the Attorney
General's Office for terrorism and undermining the security of the
country.

Sapara leaders met this week to decide on future actions to save
their forests. We are in communication with Gloria Ushigua, who is
President of the Association of Sapara Women, Ashinwaka.

The Sarayaku, who won a Human Rights case in the International Courts
have also pledged to defend their lands against oil exploration. We are
in communication with Jairo Santi, communicator for the Sarayaku.

The government has designated further oil concessions in Aschuar territory, which the Aschuar People are resisting.

The threat of huge mines

Two areas in Ecuador threatened by large open pit copper and gold mines. The longest struggle is at Intag
in the North West of the country. In recent weeks the military and
police have invaded the territory and made arrests. The situation is
tense and the people are determined to protect their territory.

In the South East of the country in the province of Morona-Santiago,
the Central Ecuadorian Government have launched major mining concessions
which are not acceptable to the Provincial Government who are committed to preserving ecosystems and biodiversity.

About two weeks ago a church and school were demolished in San Marcos de Tundayme in Zamora-Chinchipe by EcuaCorriente S.A (ECSA), a subsidiary of Corriente Resources, which has a troubled human rights history in the country.
San Marcos is situated in an area to be submerged in toxic mine waste.
The church was being used for Christian worship until it was destroyed.

Last week workers locked themselves into the mine works citing Human Rights abuses.
This is a very difficult situation exacerbated by Government
irregularities in relation to both Human Rights and The Rights of
Nature, both of which are incorporated into the Ecuadorian Constitution.

With growing spirit of rebellion across the country, the national
mobilization of indigenous tribes, a National Security Alert in place,
the disputed petition, and the government's continued commitment to
seeking development by resource extraction, the tension in Ecuador is
palpable.

Could "smart" meters be part of the largest corporate con job on the
planet? This May 2014 interview with Josh del Sol, director of the
documentary Take Back Your Power (watch at http://takebackyourpower.net),
discusses the installation of "smart" meters worldwide, the growing
resistance to the agenda, and how to prevent or reverse installation of
one on your home.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

How do you get rid of hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water?
You dump it into the Pacific Ocean of course! In Japan, the Tokyo
Electric Power Co. has made the “painful decision” to begin purposely
dumping massive amounts of radioactive water currently being stored at
the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility directly into the Pacific.
This is being done even though water radiation levels near Fukushima
spiked to a brand new all-time record high just a few days ago. The
radioactive material that is being released will enter our food chain
and will potentially stay with us for decades to come. Fukushima is an
environmental nightmare that never seems to end, but the mainstream
media in the United States decided to pretty much stop talking about it
long ago. So don’t expect the big news networks to make a big deal out
of the fact that Japan is choosing to use the Pacific Ocean as a toilet
for their nuclear waste. But even though they aren’t talking about it,
that doesn’t mean that radioactive material from Fukushima is not
seriously affecting the health of millions of people all over the
planet.

According to the Japan Times, Tepco released 560 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific on Wednesday, and Tepco says that for the foreseeable future we should expect another 100 tons of radioactive water to be released into the ocean every single day…

Tokyo Electric Power Co. began dumping groundwater from
the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the Pacific on Wednesday, in a
bid to manage the huge amounts of radioactive water that have built up
at the complex.

The utility, which says the water discharged is within legal
radiation safety limits, has been fighting a daily battle against
contaminated water since Fukushima No. 1 was decimated by the earthquake
and tsunami of March 2011.

Tepco said 560 tons of groundwater captured and
stored before it entered reactor building basements was to be released
Wednesday, using a bypass system that funnels it toward the ocean after
checking for radiation levels.

Using the bypass, Tepco hopes to divert an average of 100 tons of untainted groundwater a day into the ocean.

Tepco is assuring us that the radioactive water that is being released is within “legal radiation safety limits”.

But this is the same company that could not tell us why radiation levels in water near Fukushima reached a new all-time high just a few days ago…

Radiation has spiked to all-time highs
at five monitoring points in waters adjacent to the crippled Fukushima
No. 1 power station, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said
Friday.

The measurements follow similar highs detected in groundwater at the
plant. Officials of Tepco, as the utility is known, said the cause of
the seawater spike is unknown.

Three of the monitoring sites are inside the wrecked plant’s adjacent port, which ships once used to supply it.

At one sampling point in the port, between the water intakes for the
No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, 1,900 becquerels per liter of tritium was
detected Monday, up from a previous high of 1,400 becquerels measured on
April 14, Tepco said.

Nearby, also within the port, tritium levels were found to have
spiked to 1,400 becquerels, from a previous high of 1,200 becquerels.

So do you trust Tepco?

I certainly do not.

And this is not just a Japanese issue. Radioactive material from
Fukushima has literally been found all over the planet. For example, a
nuclear fuel fragment from Fukushima has been found as far away as Norway.

Once this radioactive material gets into the ocean and into our food chain, there is no telling where it may end up.

If the mainstream media really did care about “the environment”, they
would be talking about this. But instead, there seems to be a
conspiracy of silence. Just consider the comments that Martin Fackler of the New York Times made during one recent interview…

Yeah… it’s so hard in Japan to talk about the radiation
issue, like how bad is it really… There is a sense that if you even talk
about these issues, you’re hurting the poor people of Fuksuhima.
Therefore, we shouldn’t talk about it. That’s just not right… The folks
who don’t want us to talk about it are the government, because they
don’t want to pay compensation… I feel like there is a lot going on in
Fukushima that just doesn’t get talked about in the local media, not
necessarily for government cover-up sort of issues, but self restraint
or self censorship. Even papers that are pretty strong in their
reporting on Tepco in some ways, like the Tokyo Shimbun, won’t talk
about these issues because they’re afraid that somehow its unpatriotic
to talk about radiation. There’s a lot of questions and issues that are
not being talked about, and I think they should be talked and if there
is damage to the people of Fukushima that’s the responsibility of Tepco…

And the U.S. media certainly doesn’t seem to want to talk about how
radiation from Fukushima could be affecting the west coast of our
country.

But the evidence continues to mount that something very unusual is happening.

Sea lions are once again struggling to survive and are
washing ashore, many of them pups dehydrated, malnourished and on the
brink of death.

The year started off quieter than last year, and the Pacific Marine
Mammal Center’s director of development, Melissa Sciacca, thought they
were in the clear – until about a month ago, when the calls started
coming in nonstop. The center, in Laguna Beach, is near capacity, with
about 100 sea lions being treated so they can be returned to the wild
once they are strong enough.

“We thought it was going to be a nice calm year; in the last month
it’s just spiked,” she said. “The rescues just keep coming in at a
steady pace.”

A lot of people out there are attempting to downplay the impact that
the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had on the Pacific Ocean.

I believe that this is a huge mistake.

Nuclear radiation causes cancer.

Nuclear radiation kills.

The total amount of nuclear material released from Fukushima just
continues to increase and slowly accumulate in our food chain. When
these nuclear particles get into you, they can literally start cooking
you from the inside out. In a previous article, I included a quote from an opinion piece by Helen Caldicott that was published in the Guardian….

Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from
radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or
skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium
137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air
around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains
(for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then
humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans). After
they enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters –
migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain,
where they continuously irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses
of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce
uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many
of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations,
and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and genetic
diseases over time.

Doesn’t that sound lovely?

And it has been documented that radioactive material from Fukushima
has been getting into the seafood being sold in North America.

For example, back in 2012 the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being discovered in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…

• 73 percent of the mackerel

• 91 percent of the halibut

• 92 percent of the sardines

• 93 percent of the tuna and eel

• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies

• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

So why was radiation testing for seafood subsequently shut down in Canada?

Since that time, as I detailed in one of my previous articles,
a high school student up in Canada tested seafood bought at local
grocery stores for radioactive contamination. What she found was
absolutely stunning…

A Canadian high school student named Bronwyn Delacruz
never imagined that her school science project would make headlines all
over the world. But that is precisely what has happened. Using a $600
Geiger counter purchased by her father, Delacruz measured seafood bought
at local grocery stores for radioactive contamination. What she
discovered was absolutely stunning. Much of the seafood, particularly
the products that were made in China, tested very high for radiation.
So is this being caused by nuclear radiation from Fukushima? Is the
seafood that we are eating going to give us cancer and other diseases?

Why aren’t we being warned about this?

Earlier this year, a fish that was caught just off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture was discovered to have 124 times the safe level of radioactive cesium.

But virtually nobody in the mainstream media considers this to be important enough to talk about.

A lot of people seem to think that the Fukushima nuclear disaster is
old news. But in many ways the biggest problems for North America may
just be beginning. For example, according to scientists at the University of South Wales,
the main radioactive plume of water from Fukushima has finally crossed
the Pacific Ocean and is going to hit our shores at some point during
2014…

The first radioactive ocean plume released by the
Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the
shores of the United States some time in 2014, according to a new study
from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after
the date of the disaster.

The following graphics come directly from that study…

So as the main plume of nuclear radiation reaches our shores, what
will that do to our wildlife, our fishing industry and our beaches?

And what kind of danger does this radioactive water pose to those living along the west coast?

These are very important questions, but unfortunately those in power
and those working for the mainstream media don’t really want to talk
about these things.

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